Case Study: ShopIgniter achieves scalable, reliable social e-commerce growth with Rackspace Technology

ShopIgniter Leverages the Cloud to Make E-Commerce a Social Affair

ShopIgniter is a social e-commerce platform that helps brands extend transactional experiences into social networks with tools like Facebook stores, social coupons, referral incentives, and group or limited-time promotions. As an early-stage software company focused on product development, ShopIgniter needed a reliable, flexible hosting partner that could deliver quick deployment, near-100% uptime and the ability to handle exponential traffic spikes from press coverage and holiday shopping.

ShopIgniter moved to the Rackspace Cloud, using Cloud Sites for client control panels and site-level metrics, Cloud Servers for shell access and more advanced server tasks, and Cloud Files for low-cost backups and media storage. The solution gave ShopIgniter scalable infrastructure, detailed client metrics and strong support from Rackspace—letting the team concentrate on product innovation while ensuring reliable performance during peak traffic and the holiday season.

ShopIgniter

Dan Warner

Chief Technical Officer